Three men have been charged in connection with the theft of the toilet, which was taken just two days after it was put on display as part of an exhibit.
The raid, which includes dismantling the working 18-carat, 103 kilogram gold toilet, titled America (2016), took only five minutes.
the sprawling English country mansion where British wartime leader Winston Churchill was born, a prosecutor told jurors Monday. This screenshot made from a video shows the 18-karat toilet, titled “America,” by Maurizio Cattelan in the restroom of the ...
Prosecutor Julian Christopher said a group of five men drove two stolen vehicles through locked wooden gates into the palace grounds before dawn on Sept 14, 2019. They broke in through a window, smashed down a wooden door, ripped the toilet from the wall and left after five minutes in the building.
A daring heist saw the theft of a unique 18-carat gold toilet from Blenheim Palace, the birthplace of Winston Churchill, in September 2019. The stolen toilet, an artwork named 'America' by Maurizio Cattelan,
Three men snatched an 18-carat-gold toilet worth $3.5 million from an English country mansion where Winston Churchill was born — and now they could be headed to the can, authorities say.
They were awoken when the fully functioning toilet, which had been installed as an artwork at the Oxfordshire country house where Sir Winston ... by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan, was a star ...